Functional Scala13 min read
Folds in Scala: turning collections into results
A type-led guide to foldLeft, foldRight, reduce and scan, with accumulator design, evaluation order, performance and practical alternatives.
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Scala14 min read
Pattern matching in Scala: more than a switch statement
How Scala patterns deconstruct algebraic data types, collections and extractors; where exhaustivity helps; and how guards, partial functions and overly broad matches create risk.
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Using Futures in Scala application code and tests
How Scala Future starts, composes and fails; how ExecutionContext choices affect Play services; and how to test asynchronous behaviour without sleeps or misleading mocks.
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Scala syntactic sugar: what the compiler sees
A practical guide to method-call shorthand, apply and update, operators, for-comprehensions, placeholders, varargs, string interpolation and the semantics hidden by concise Scala syntax.
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Java records and sealed types for honest domain models
How records, sealed interfaces, Optional and exhaustive decisions can replace nullable fields, string states and inheritance-heavy Java models.
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Testing Spring Boot services at the right boundaries
A practical testing structure for Java and Spring Boot: pure unit tests, focused service tests, web slices, repository integration and fewer mocks that merely replay the implementation.
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Nuxt rendering: choosing SSR, static generation and client-side work
How Nuxt rendering choices affect HTML, hydration, data freshness, browser APIs and deployment—and why one application can use more than one strategy.
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Keep Nuxt server and client boundaries explicit
A technical guide to Nuxt server routes, runtime configuration, API contracts, authentication and avoiding secrets or server-only dependencies in browser bundles.
Read articleAI-assisted engineering13 min read
Using Codex on a real codebase without losing engineering control
How to give Codex useful repository context, shape bounded tasks, review its evidence and keep responsibility for architecture, security and production behaviour with the engineering team.
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